Composite with Mark Wallace

A few weeks back I had the absolute privilege of spending a few hours with photographer and fellow Adorama TV presenter Mark Wallace. He was on a European vaccation and we met up in London for a chat over a cup of tea.

Dispite Mark being on his holiday and neither of us planning to shoot a video we decided the oportunity was too good to miss. The plan was for Mark to shoot a portrait in his studio in Phoenix, Arizona and I’d shoot a background in the UK and composite the two photos together.

So here’s part one which starts in the UK before moving on to the USA.

Part two is where I get to shoot a new background and composite the two photos together. I’ll be using Photoshop Elements 11 to do this which features the same ability to make amazing selections of hair that’s found in Photoshop CS5. In otherwords the technique I use in Elements is the same in Photoshop CS5, CS6 and Photoshop CC.

We had a real laugh shooting this video and who knows, may be one day we can organise a bigger, better shoot or two. Mark made a BONUS outtakes video which you can see here and may be the best video of the three 🙂 http://youtu.be/gJf6vJ5_WXc

I absolutely love you work! I’m always excited when i see your next video tutorial on shooting and post production.

I am however getting extremely frustrated right now! Trying to cut out a model from my background shot in studio (white background showing up grey in the picture due to lighting) in order to place her into a flyer / poster i’m doing up for a client….

I’ve used this method before and it ahs worked great, but for some reason now when i refine edge it acts like its on half opacity or something. selecting the hair it kind of partially selects it. For example when i go to black and white view in the refine edge there are some grey areas. Or when viewing the red mask the red has different tones and i can’t seem to get the selection to work. This is possibly due to her hair being blowing due to a fan i had on, but i was hoping you might be able to help.